"Does My Insurance Cover This?"

Hey, Jill here again.



I get asked this question a lot. Half the calls made to the office are potential patients who won't consider coming in until they have this question answered. So I finally decided to post about it.



The answer is this:

It depends on your insurance plan. So there. Whatever your insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana, Cigna, HMO, PPO, whatever--sometimes it's covered depending on what you're paying for.

So give them a call. The number is on your card somewhere. I know it is. All you have to do is muster the courage and patience to sit through the automated system until you talk to a real person. It's annoying, I realize that. That's part of life.

So does your insurance cover this? I don't know. But ask yourself this instead: "Can I afford to keep living the way I do now for much longer? Or will my health begin to deteriorate faster?"

Oh yeah, we don't take Public Aid. Everything else (HMO sites have to be Gottlieb West Town site 133) is acceptable. So you guys can relax about that, at least.

I will say most insurances do cover us, though. We have a small percentage of patients who aren't covered who never come back, but about 94% are.

So please, if you're going to call us, at least think of a creative way to phrase this question. I like creative thinkers. ^_^